[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26266]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            SEX SELECTION ABORTION IN INDIA A MASSIVE CRIME

  (Mr. SMITH of New Jersey asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, the United Nations' push for 
global population control continues to lead to ugly and inhumane 
outcomes, especially for girls.
  China, as you know, imposes a barbaric ``one child per couple'' 
policy that relies on forced abortion, involuntary sterilization and 
ruinous fines to implement. But a UNFPA report sheds new light on sex 
selection abortion in India. According to the U.N. report, increasingly 
parents are using sex selection technologies that enable practitioners 
first to identify female unborn girls and then to abort them. As a 
result, fully 60 million girls are now missing according to the United 
Nations, effectively falling into a demographic black hole from which 
analysts fear there will be no return.
  The report says as many as 2 million unborn baby girls are aborted 
each year for no other reason than they happen to be female.
  In Punjab, the government claims that the numbers of missing girls 
will increase by 40 percent in the forthcoming generation.
  Mr. Speaker, abortion is violence against children. It relies on 
dismemberment of the baby. Abortion relies on chemical poisoning. Sex 
selection abortion in India or anywhere else is a particularly heinous 
crime. All children--boys or girls--are precious. None deserve death by 
abortion.

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